Monday, November 09, 2015

This solves nothing

This solves nothing

The education inflation lawsuit settlement just isn’t enough
to help our schools recover from years of Republican budget cuts. As the
details about the settlement come to light, it’s even clearer that this cannot
be the last word on education funding.

A Republic columnist recently pointed out that the GOP
should get “no
prize for past-due payments,” because the settlement “won’t give anything
new to schools” and only provides a portion of “what schools were already owed
under voter-mandated obligation that lawmakers ignored during the recession.”

The columnist also wrote that, “paying a past-due bill –
mostly out of the state land trust - does not boost school funding beyond where
it should have been” and “Arizona school funding will remain near the bottom
nationally.”